Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems
Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York TimesIn her book of letters to the dead, the…
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Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York TimesIn her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort's Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda?
While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet's voice, old trees speak to her as
Silence For The Dead
Speaker for the Dead
Call for the Dead
Call for the Dead
Spells For The Dead
Call for the Dead
Verses for the Dead
Sorry for the Dead